PDC World Darts Championship: War of words erupts between Gary Anderson and Adrian Lewis

BRAVEDART Gary Anderson’s “lucky” jibe at Adrian Lewis has erupted into a war of words at the Ally Pally oche horror show.

BRAVEDART Gary Anderson’s “lucky” jibe at Adrian Lewis has erupted into a war of words at the Ally Pally oche horror show.

Anderson, last year’s beaten finalist, survived two darts for the match before scraping through his first round thriller against German outsider Jyhan Artut.

Then he fired a parting shot at Lewis, who had also scrambled back from two sets down against Nigel Heydon on the opening night of the Ladbrokes PDC world championship, claiming: “He’s lucky still to be in it.”

Last night ‘Jackpot’ Lewis sneered: “Gary’s entitled to his opinion - but I don’t agree with it and I don’t like it.”

Anderson’s epic battle with Artut, which will go down as the night the Tartanic sank the Teutonic, touched a raw nerve with the No.4 seed.

He said: “I don’t think I have ever been to a sudden-death tie-break before, so to all those people who said I don’t have the bottle or the stamina to come back from 2-0 down, stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

“It doesn’t matter how well you are playing, you still need a bit of luck. The reigning world champion is still in this tournament, and to be honest I don’t think he should be.

“In the first round, Nigel Heydon absolutely battered him on the dartboard, but Adrian hung in there, got his get-out-jail-free card and he was lucky. People can say I was lucky as well, but I should have finished off Artut earlier. I did have three darts at double top to win it, but I made a complete a*** of it.”